The Half Elf wrote on Nov 14, 2012, 16:00:Ok I'm throwing out the BULLSHIT flag right now.

Mafia 2 was a better game?!? Open World devoid of anything to do in it except rob stores, fetch cars and buy clothes. It was a waste of a perfectly good city.Every time you went to bed you were woken up by the phone and a mission. WAY to linear.

That's why I said it was "very linear"; I never stated they were the same sort of game. I much prefer a strong narrative and Mafia II really delivered on that. GTAIV had the better open world gameplay and the environments were more varied but other issues bogged it down.

I'm more interested in Mafia III at the moment, especially as it will be a next-gen title. It's unlikely to be fully open world but that's fine by me if the gameplay is strong. Mafia II played like a proper PC title; GTAIV didn't.